Phoenix Suns Continue Dominance of Warriors, 102-91, Nash and Morris Lead the Way

Here in England, the same team that bought you the new Doctor Who TV series also re vamped the Sherlock franchise and bought him to the modern era for BBC TV.

it is the best thing on tv you need to go get the dvd of the first season and season 2 episode 2 was on yesterday and blew my mind and everyone else who watched it mostly i highly recommend it

I keep missing them!

Boy, are we missing shots! Shots we usually make.

Morris is playing in his 5th NBA game holy crap this dude is everywhere He may become Amare except this dude can play defense!!! Go Suns!!! Can you imagine if they had a training camp!?!?!?!?!

Feels good that the suns got another win. The real test to see if we can be a playoff team will come against the mavs and then to see if we can put together some wins against the rest of the western conference elite.

I know it’d be nice to make the playoffs, but i’m really hoping to add a high lottery talent for our future rebuild.

Morris has brought back some excitement to the valley with his tough interior defense,athleticism and hustle. He’s definitely going to be a big part of our future, but we’ll need to surround him (as well as gortat and lopez with more talent and athleticism.

I like the bigs available in the 2012 draft alot, but it may be more prudent for us to upgrade our pointguard and wing positions given the age of our all-star players (nash,hill and redd).

Pointguard prospects like teague,marshall and kabongo could be the the next great pointman for the suns after nash.

Perry jones and michael kidd-gilchrest could fill the void at small-forward after hill retires.

Jeremy lamb and brad beal might be the future at shooting guard for the suns if we can draft either of them.

Add any one or two of those guys to mix with gortat,lopez morris and dudley and we have some potential star talent for the future.

http://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/phx/phoenix-suns only TWO players averaging double digit PPG.

Interestingly enough, Morris is averaging more points and rebounds per game than minnisota’s derrick williams. Can markieff develop into a star? Who knows. I’d like to see him become a horace grant type power forward.

As i mentioned above we’ll need to find him a great young pointguard (price is a very solid backup but not a consistent starter) so maybe we’ll finally draft one. Teague is an exciting and athletic scoring point who could bring back memories of kj with his scoring and slashing. He’s a pretty erratic playmaker though.

Kabongo is hailed as potentially another rondo, with his aggresive defense,ball-handling wizardry and gifted playmaking.

But the guy i like most for us right now if we drafted a pointguard would have to be kendall marshall. He’s not much of an athlete but he has the size and innate playmaking ability of a jason kidd. I’m sure if we drafted him everyone on the team(especially morris) would see their stats rise dramatically.

Two other guys i forgot to mention are harrison barnes and john henson. Barnes is talented enough to play either shooting guard or small forward and has the maturity and character of grant hill.

Henson is still skinny but is super-athletic and a tremendous rebounder and shotblocker. We could use him at small forward next to morris as a much better defensive version of warrick.

It’s alot of fun to imagine the suns nabbing one of the top lottery talents but if i had to narrow it down, i can see us choosing from marquis teague, harrison barnes or perry jones.

I can just close my eyes and envision one of those three as a definite future suns star. If we keep winning we’ll probably not stay in the top five of the lottery but i can’t see us running off enough wins in this shortened season to drop past the tenth pick(at worst).

If we don’t make the playoffs and don’t win the lottery and take drummond, who do we draft that fits and can be a future all-star for us?

starting to be a bit more consistant, might take a few more games, but very deep team is going to be huge down the stretch

ESPN is hard on the suns right now and puffing up teams like Clips and NY, but watch these teams that have no bench tire out later on in the season. Might be over optimistic but based on depth, I see suns in 6-4 seed range.

We beat an injury riddled warriors team without it’s all-star power forward. I still can’t see this team in the playoff hunt until we prove we can beat teams like the mavs,thunder or lakers on a consistent basis.

If we can’t beat all the elite teams in the west and make it to the finals and win it all, then what’s the point of making the playoffs?

I want this team to either be good enough to be considered a real title contender or i want them to rebuild. There can be no middle ground. What happened to setting a goal of attaining a championship? Now we are supposed to rejoice if we barely make it in to the playoffs? We should expect more given the history of this franchise.

The game has changed, yet our front office stubbornly refuses to change with the times. That’s why we’ve been getting blown out by the younger more athletic teams in the league. Nash and hill are nba hall of famers but they are a year or two away from retirement and when we eventually lose them, we will be left with a team full of solid role players but no up and coming stars.

Morris has been a very pleasant surprise but i wouldn’t expect him to make an Amare-like impact in his rookie season. Is he one of the better rookies, yes. But he isn’t a star yet and we need more young talent to realistically compete against teams like the thunder,grizzlies,clippers and blazers.

If the suns make the playoffs everyone will feel good about this team and it’s direction. That is until we get eliminated (most likely in the first round). Guys like westbrook.williams and howard will not sign with the suns just because we have the most money to throw at them, it’ll be enticing to them but not as appealing as joining a younger,more talented team with a number of years to make a run at a title.

What can we offer those guys aside from money? The chance to play with an aging nash and hill?

So we have two choices, make a very deep and unexpected playoff run(highly unlikely) or Go for a home run in the draft and add a future cornerstone player in the lottery.

Aside from adding markieff, it feels like this team is trapped in the ssol era playing for past glories instead of trying to adapt and improve for the forseeable future.

Like it or not the 2012 draft holds the key to this team’s future, but maybe it’s just better for everybody if the suns break even.

being sent to GITMO and waterboarded until he returns away games broadcasting rights to Ch.45.

From HardwoodParoxysm
Lion Face: Markieff Morris

Ignore the opponent. I know that they played against the Warriors, but hear me out. Markieff Morris made his claim for increased playing time over Channing Frye and Hakim Warrick by racking up 16 points and 9 rebounds. Morris showed off some pretty nice range, but also cleaned up 3 offensive rebounds at the rim. In this god awful season that the Suns are currently experiencing, Morris may be something that their fans have to smile about when they aren’t crying about the horrible things that Steve Nash has to endure.